Obama's Nobel Prize cited as Ubuntu

[WorldTripping]

South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, cited a Zulu term — "Ubuntu," which refers to the importance of community" — in saying Obama's "leadership reflects the true spirit of Ubuntu because your approach celebrates our common humanity."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gKInWrfVAD8c-prNKvUr3hmLBuowD9B8KPRO0

[HappinessNow]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gKInWrfVAD8c-prNKvUr3hmLBuowD9B8KPRO0

See the following article from the Wall Street Journal:


Nobel's Long History of Political Picks (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125513058590377255.html)

The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee has throughout its history been captive to the politics of the time.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125513058590377255.html

[Jesus_Valdez]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gKInWrfVAD8c-prNKvUr3hmLBuowD9B8KPRO0
So, the way I see it, Ubuntu won the Nobel Prize!!!!

[dragos240]

Neat!

Would this be a politics topic? Or will it stay because it's related to ubuntu.

[3rdalbum]

Seriously, I think Mark Shuttleworth would be more deserving than Obama currently is. Oh, I'll wait and see what he does in the next 3 years, but so far he hasn't done enough to even be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize.

[HappinessNow]

Seriously, I think Mark Shuttleworth would be more deserving than Obama currently is. Oh, I'll wait and see what he does in the next 3 years, but so far he hasn't done enough to even be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize.


"The Norwegians know they have the opportunity to influence world opinion twice a year" -- when they announce the prize and when they award it, said Scott London, co-author of a new book on Nobel lectures with his historian grandfather, Irwin Abrams. "And they want to make the most of it."http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125513058590377255.html


Mr. Obama is not the first person rewarded for potential, more than actual, achievements. In 1960, the prize went to Albert Luthuli, a South African activist who struggled against apartheid. His movement did not triumph until 32 years later, when South Africa embraced black majority rule.
The committee's most-controversial prize was probably the 1973 selection of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and his counterpart, Le Duc Tho, for their efforts to end the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese negotiator declined the award, the only recipient to do so in the prize's 108-year history.
Mr. Kissinger, who guided war policy in the Nixon administration, accepted, prompting musical satirist Tom Lehrer to respond: "It was at that moment that satire died. There was nothing more to say after that."
Another controversy came in 1994, when the prize went jointly to Israeli leaders Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat, despite the PLO's history of terror attacks. Apparently aware of the tensions that remained, the committee noted in its announcement that it was listing the recipients in alphabetical order.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125513058590377255.html

[Glucklich]

Neat!

Would this be a politics topic? Or will it stay because it's related to ubuntu.

As long as you don't say he did nothing to deserve it, I think you'll be fine ;)

[bapoumba]

Neat!

Would this be a politics topic? Or will it stay because it's related to ubuntu.


As long as you don't say he did nothing to deserve it, I think you'll be fine ;)

Well well, I'm leaning towards politics.. I'll check with the other Staff members and open the thread if they feel so. Closing for now.

Edit: the thread will remain closed.